News / Tusk turning his back to idea about Intermarium (New Commonwealth), seeing only EU as future for Poland [119]

Merged:

The Three Seas Initiative. The new future for Poland?

The EU is starting to create more problems to its members than it solves. Is it time for Poland to refocus our attention towards Emerging Europe?

UK, Ireland / Are the Polish in the UK actually rude or bitter? [38]

Nope. We're just honest and straightforward :-)

UK, Ireland / Are the Polish in the UK actually rude or bitter? [38]


Are you a self-hating person then, Rich Mazur?

Genealogy / Polish surnames of Hungarian / Ruthenian / Rusyn origin [14]

@Bartkowiak

Surname: Turłaj

I had a childhood friend with this surname. His father's family was of Hungarian origin who moved to Poland

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

No, "Murzyn" is not racist. It is a neutral word describing a black person

News / Should Poland made an energy bridge deal with Russia? [122]


That's true. The EU officially blocks its members from dealing with Russia but that doesn't stop some EU members from making shady "side deals" with Russia.

Make no mistake Crow, the EU is a deeply corrupted body.

Poland doesn't exclude a possibility of making a new gas deal with Russia after 2022 when a current contract expire. A new gas diversification projects are aimed at establishing a stronger position for the future negotiations.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Not quite so. Those are local elections which results has never resembled the major [Parliamentary] elections in Poland.

And there's also an interesting thing about Silesia. Both: upper Silesia and Lower Silesia has voted on PiS in recent elections.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

When you look at the local elections of 2014 you can clearly see that "right wing" has, in general, gained popularity since then.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


delphiandomine has already provided the answer to this question:

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Even those who don't support specific political parties stand by a specific values like Catholic religion, respect for "Cursed soldiers" an anti-communist Polish resistance, Patriotism and respect for Fatherland.

Those people are, and will be, a natural right wing and conservative voters.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


I'm glad that you've mentioned that. In Poland there's a completely different trend and conservatism is on the rise.

SLD, an ex commie socialist party that was always present in Polish parliament since 1989 is there no more! For the first time they were completely voted out of parliament in 2015, the same year when PiS has gained majority in parliament. PiS is the very first party that had a majority in Polish parliament.

And let's not forget Kukiz 15 which a new, right-wing, political formation in Polish parliament and it chipped away votes from other parties. And what is even more interesting they took those votes from the other, non conservative parties, It is also worth to mention that Kukiz 15 is dominantly supported by a young voters.

The future is bRIGHT!

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


I said it before and I'll say it again: those were local elections and not major elections. Local election has never in the history of post-communist Poland reflected major [parliamentary] elections.

Local elections in Poland 2014: PiS ~27% of the votes

Parliamentary elections in Poland 2015: PiS = majority in the parliament

Let's wait for the official results, should we? And then we can draw some conclusions. Patience is a virtue my friend

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Be so kind and don't twist my words. I wrote: "In Poland there's a completely different trend and conservatism is on the rise" not that "Kukiz 15 is on the rise".


Like you can clearly see, even those partial and still unofficial results that you've shared clearly shows that PiS has gained more popularity since local elections in 2014 when they won 171 mandates.

2014 local elections were followed by gaining a majority for PiS in the Parliament elections in 2015.

Those early 2018 local results shows that PiS will also gain a majority in 2019 Parliamentary elections.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


My friend, how many times should I tell you that local elections doesn't directly translate into major, parliamentary elections. They only show a major trend with voters. And PiS has clearly gained the ground since the last local elections.

You are very resistant to arguments. But that's all right, I guess we'll have to wait until 2019 parliamentary elections to continue with this discussion. Time will pass anyway.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

I think that Germans have much more Mongolian blood than Poles do since German women were raped 'en masse' by Soviet Soldiers at the end of WWII. And those late Soviet invading forces were often composed of Kazachs, Kalmuks, and some other Asian nations of the former USSR, at the end of the war

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]


You can't even compare those two numbers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Germany

Soviet Soldiers were instructed not to make local communities hostile to the USRR. There were some incidents where Polish women were assaulted but it wasn't even a comparable number. Most of the rapes took place in Recovered Territories on German population, and unfortunately on Mazurs too which are not Germans, and in East Germany.

Those Soviets were primitive brutes, so I don't envy those women, but the fact is that Soviets "vent off the steam" mostly on German women.

But that's what happens to a country that starts "Total War" and then loose.

Po polsku / Polskie powiedzonka typu "Nie moja bajka"? [41]

"nie moja para kaloszy" :-)

Po polsku / Wolności słowa w Polsce nie ma?? [93]

W Polsce jest wieksza wolnosc slowa niz na Zachodzie. Np: w Londynie ludzie sa spetani poprawnoscia polityczna i boja sie mowic co naprawde sadza

Po polsku / Wolności słowa w Polsce nie ma?? [93]

Nie byla ale takie ustawy maja i Izraelczycy i Niemcy i nikt ich nie naciskal z zewnatrz zeby je usunac

Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [401]


Wilkoszewski sounds like a minor nobility name from a Lesser Poland

Po polsku / Wolności słowa w Polsce nie ma?? [93]

W takim razie pozostalo jeszcze zmienic podobne ustawy w Niemczech i Izraelu i mamy wolnosc slowa. Kto na ochotnika powie o tym Netanjahu? :-P

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]


There is no hostility between regular Russians and Poles. The same can't be said about the governments.

I've got nothing against common Russians but despise former KGB agents-turned-politicians such as Putin.

Many Russian visits Poland thanks to semi-open border policy z Kaliningrad Oblast.

Those Russians are having a good time in Poland

youtu.be/hen86F2L2Vw

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [95]

Merged:

Inspiring Polish authors and their works [translated into english]

A list of the most inspiring Polish authors that you would like to share but only those translated into english.

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I'm a huge S. Lem fan so I'll start with "Solaris" [1961]

If you watched any of the two "Solaris" movies - forget about them. They're not even 10% as deep and interesting as the novel is.

Solaris in an ultimate take on a concept of first contact with an extraterrestrial life.

"Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(novel)

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [632]


First they have to officially and practically renounce the cult of Stefan Bandera and UPA, just like Germany renounced Adolf Hitler and NSDAP.

They can't follow the cult of mass murderers from UPA/OUN and also be perceived as a civilized society at the same time.

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]


I've also never personally met Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot or Che Guevara and yet I despise them all for their actions.

And no, I don't think that Putin is as bad as any of those aforementioned persons.

Yet, he still is a former KGB agent (he claims that are no "former KGB agents" - once an agent you're an agent for life) and only the most ruthless and unscrupulous people worked for Soviet special agencies like KGB, NKWD or GRU.

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]


Putin was not a 'support employee' but an active field agent in East Germany.
I understand that he has got some substantial following, even outside of Russia, of people who falsely perceive him as a 'defender of conservative values'.

Ronald Reagan was a conservative. Margaret Thatcher was a conservatives. Putin isn't much more than a 'former' soviet KGB agent

History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]


Not much of an obsession more like a sober observation. If I twisted any fact then prove me wrong but don't to try to force "obsessions" on me.


Past is important. Past defines who we are now. Past also defines the whole nations and their present politics.

Without a healthy past it is difficult to build a healthy future. It just comes back to bike you in the *ss.

For example: do you think that Germany would behave like they did in 2015 if not for their ugly past?

Your past, which you shared with us on this forum, has defined you. You are a sum of your past actions, your experiences and memories.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

So I read that PiS has already acquired a few PSL activists in local councils. They've also made a coalition with SLD in one of them. It looks like PiS is slowly absorbing lesser opposition parties. So they not only won the local elections but also getting more traction in "local" Poland

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Actually, SLD leader forbid such a coalition as not-so-very-constructive opposition wanted to form a solid anti-PiS block. Yet, local leaders wanted to make a stable coalition and work for their local communities instead of fighting in pointless wars. The whole post-election political scene in Poland looks more and more interesting

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Good article. The authors have actually a good grasp of Polish politics which is quite uncommon for foreign commentators